Improved circular wash-board



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

THOMAS FISLER, OF CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVED CIRCULAR WASH-BOARD.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 36.145, dated August 12, 1862.

.To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAs FIsLEE, of Camden, in the county of Camden and State of New Jersey, have invented a new Circular Wash- Board, to be used in connection with the washtubs in common use; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact descriptionof the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure lis a perspective view, and Fig. 2 a transverse section.

The nature of my invention consists in constructing two circular racks to be operated one within the other and arranged so that they can be set in a common wash-tub and removed or taken out at any time.

I construct my circular wash-board as follows: I make two rings or rims, A A, and connect them together with slats or rods B. This forms the outer circle or rack. I construct the inner circle, C, by connecting two wheels by means of slats, the same as the outer circle, but of less dimensions. The smaller circle is placed in the center of the larger, as seen in Fig. 1, and rests on a pivot on the bar D at the bottom of the outer circle. A shaft passes through the center of the circle C, and at the top it passes through a bar, E. The bar E is made f ast at each end to the upper ring of the outer circle. At the end of the shaft which passes through the bar E is the lever F, by

which it is operated, the whole being conconstructed and arranged as seen in Fig. l.

I operate the circular wash-board as follows: I set it in a wash-tub; ll the tub about two-thirds full of water. I put the clothes between the outer and inner circles, andv by taking hold of the lever F give the inner circle a half or two-tl1irds of a rotary motion, pressing the water through the clothes. The twocircles or frames being open between the slats, like a rack, lets the water. have afree circulation through the clothes and passes off be tween the slats, and removes the dirt from the clothes with great rapidity and with less injury to the fabric and with much less labor than with the wash-boards now in use.

Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the two circular racks lso as to form a circular wash-board, to be used in connection with the wash-tubs in common use, arranged substantially as set forth and for the purpose specified.

THOMAS FISLER.

Witnesses:

S. H. QUIN'r, W. J. WALKER. 

